Service Summit 2014

Co-sponsored by the Center for Research, Regional
Education and Outreach (CRREO), IDMH, the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz, the American Red Cross Northeastern New York Region, Hudson Valley
Federal Credit Union and Central Hudson.

The Summit featured an overview of current Emergency Response and Recovery Volunteer Workforce capacity and needs by Art Snyder, Ulster County Office of Emergency Management, and Michael Raphael, American Red Cross of Northeastern New York. It was followed by a panel and roundtable discussions on six topics which had been identified as priorities by a survey and poll we conducted earlier this year: Disaster Mental Health, Volunteer Reception Center & Virtual VRC, Access to Emergency Services, Community Animal Response Team, Community Communications Networks, Civilian Emergency Response Corps.

Working groups are developing around each of these topics. If you would like to be involved, please contact volunteer@ulstercorps.org or call 845.481.0331.

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Thank you to all our 2013 Summit panelists, participants, sponsors & helpers. Special thanks to the Ulster BOCES students who inspired us with their great work, and to photographer/videographers Ilene Cutler and Pam Kray for capturing the magic.

The UlsterCorps Service Summit brings together over 60 community leaders from the nonprofit, business, higher education and governmental sectors to address the work and value of volunteerism and collaborative projects in Ulster County. The 2014 summit focused on collaborative efforts to improve Community Disaster Preparedness and build our local volunteer Emergency Response and Recovery workforce.

The Summit, which is free to participants and is part of the on-going work of UlsterCorps to deepen the knowledge about volunteerism and to find ways to strengthen a culture of service and collaboration in Ulster County.

Ulster BOCES New Visions Health Career Explorations students presenting their research in the Youth Volunteerism Panel, UlsterCorps Service Summit 2012, moderated by Susan Barnett. photo: Stephen Gilman